Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan refined the Primordial Heaven Chaos Pool to draw primordial chaos into his domain, easing his injuries and revealing clues about the Heavenly Inquiry path and the schemes behind sky thunder. He concluded that Bimo’s attempt to attain sky thunder was perilous, while Tianyu’s bow hinted at a hidden struggle involving greater yang, lesser yin, and the Primordial Beginning and Xiyuan paths.

• Xu Xuan combined the Divine Sound World-Warning Bell and the Aperture Restoration Book with the Immortal Stele to refine the Primordial Heaven Chaos Pool.
• Xu Xuan used the pool to draw primordial chaos through the Primordial Gate, grinding away much of his Tribulation Fire and easing his injuries.
• Xu Xuan interpreted the Tribulation Fire and related images as clues to the Heavenly Inquiry path, god-enfeoffment, and a scheme to reunite the five virtues through the five phases.
• Xu Xuan realized that Bimo’s chances of attaining sky thunder were exceptionally poor, but he chose not to reveal his suspicions and extinguish her remaining hope.
• Xu Xuan examined Tianyu’s Cross Ten divine bow and connected its greater yang radiance to the Northern Dipper, the Primordial Beginning Great Dao, and the struggle over lesser yin’s reversal of three-in-one.
• Xu Xuan suspected that Tianyu and the lord of Jia Wood supported Bimo’s attempt in order to stir up a greater storm, though he could not determine the full purpose behind heavenly thunder’s actions.

Xuyi disposed of the Dragon Blight at the Eastern Sea's Sea Eye, where Heavenly Vessel warned that Origin Vast would soon use the Azure Sea One-Heart Vessel to remove his wooden horns. As the Eastern Sea prepared to contest kan water and respond to changes at Mount Tai, Dongzhu plotted to exploit the coming upheaval to kill and devour his brother Dongren.

• Xuyi dragged the fused Dragon Blight into Guixu, and Heavenly Vessel ordered him to bring any newly blighted descendants there.
• Heavenly Vessel said Origin Vast had swallowed the Azure Sea One-Heart Vessel and would use its power to remove his wooden horns.
• Xuyi warned Heavenly Vessel that Dragon King Bright Thunder was probing Jing-Chu over kan water, and Heavenly Vessel crushed Xuyi for speaking out of turn before ordering him to watch Mount Tai.
• Heavenly Vessel told Dongzhu to prepare to lead dragons across the Eastern and Southern Sea boundary if events at Mount Tai changed.
• Dongzhu summoned former vassals of Dongjin and began plotting to use the upheaval on land to kill and devour Dongren.

Wei Zisi watched the True Lord draw out Ding Fire’s [Suffering by Tempering] Dao Verification while Right Historian Tao disputed Dust-Sweeping’s plans and denied involvement in the loss of Bing Fire Golden Nature. In the Mysterious Balance Blessed Land, Bimo prepared to seek the Firmament, while she and Jade Bone discussed their sect’s dangers and the choices facing its younger cultivators.

• Wei Zisi observed Ding Fire’s calamity intensify as a bloodstained nail emerged and the Sky Wolf Star dimmed.
• Right Historian Tao arrived and warned Wei Zisi that Ding Fire’s Dao Verifications brought harm, then denied that his lineage had taken the Bing Fire Golden Nature.
• Wei Zisi explained that An Kuiju had killed Wen Fufeng to seize the initiative, and worried that Dust-Sweeping was trapped between powerful lineages.
• Bimo emerged from the Heavenly Capital Palace after studying the Golden-Seeking Method and learned that Zhou You had joined the Ritual Offering at Mount Tai.
• Jade Bone suggested recalling Azure Origin, but Bimo chose to leave him overseas and reflected on Upper Firmament’s struggle to follow its path.
• Bimo returned to the palace, saying she would ask the founder about the right way if she could meet him.

During Upper Firmament’s ritual at Mount Tai, Bimo reached the Fruit Position, stirring Sky Thunder’s primordial essence and leaving the rites in chaos. As Xu Xuan confronted the arriving Nurturing Earth and Nether Sheep in Primordial Heaven, Xu Fayan emerged from Nether Sheep and faced his former master.

• Xu Fayan joined True Person Zhou You in presiding over the Petitioning the Dipper rites while Bimo deployed the Awakening Celestial Phenomena Altar and Upper Firmament’s disciples performed the rituals across Mount Tai.
• A dragon’s presence disrupted the ceremonies, but Bimo completed her transformation, entered the Fruit Position, and vanished through a portal of azure thunderbolts.
• The ritual altars went dark and the masters suffered backlash; True Person Ominous Portent revealed himself as Xu Fayan and departed as Nurturing Earth’s influence overtook him.
• Qingrang entered the Primordial Gate with Xu Xuan’s help and used a talisman from True Yang to protect the Nurturing Earth Golden Core during the passage toward Primordial Heaven.
• Xu Xuan completed the Nuo Sacrifice, confronted the arriving Nether Sheep, and used the Shang Xuan Immortal Sword to halt Nurturing Earth’s spreading flesh.
• Xu Fayan tore his way out of Nether Sheep’s belly and told Xu Xuan to step aside, prompting Xu Xuan to ready his sword against him.

Master Xu rescued the Qiang slave Wuge from two monster soldiers, named him Wuge Dadi, and promised to make him king of the Qiang. He led the boy back toward Yiqu and said they would find the Wolf God worshipped by the Northern Di.

• Xianya and Kuihu roasted captured Qiang slaves and prepared to eat the surviving boy, Wuge.
• Master Xu arrived and killed Xianya and Kuihu with a single sweep of his sword.
• Master Xu healed Wuge’s throat, gave him the name Wuge Dadi, and told him to think of himself as the future king of the Qiang.
• Wuge explained that he had fled after sacrificial animals escaped, a flood dragon attacked the executioners, and Xia’s monster soldiers captured the survivors.
• Master Xu led Wuge toward Yiqu and said they would find the Wolf God worshipped by the Northern Di.

Master Xu took Wuge Dadi to Xitu City and challenged High Priest Wei’s choice of a New King, defeating him in their contests and establishing Wuge as king. The events then collapsed into an illusion revealing Fa Yan, who accepted the Dao of yin-yang and received the Daoist name Ominous Portent.

• Master Xu brought Wuge Dadi to the Northern Di’s Evil Mountain, where True Person Wang let him take the injured Gray Wolf and bound it with a Golden Rope.
• During the night, a Sheep Monster transformed Wuge into a sheep, but Violet Radiance and the Gray Wolf drove the monster away; Master Xu then led Wuge toward Xitu City.
• Master Xu declared Wuge Dadi the New King of the Yiqu Kingdom, but High Priest Wei challenged him to contests to decide who would choose the king.
• Master Xu matched High Priest Wei in rain prayer and enduring hot oil, then beheaded him; the Gray Wolf caught the fleeing priest, whom Master Xu revealed as an azure goat.
• Master Xu left Wuge behind as king and warned him against evil; the scene then collapsed, revealing Fa Yan, who vowed to cultivate the fifth merit and received the Daoist name Ominous Portent.

Xu Xuan gained control of Cangguang and completed his shock thunder fruit position while helping Bimo approach emergence. Before Bimo could succeed, sky thunder vanished, its cultivators lost their powers, and Qinglin revealed that Yinkang Ziye had been entrusted with her master's plans.

• Xu Xuan used the Complete Yang Binding Rope to summon Cangguang, the beast embodying Lingsa's retainer position, and ordered Shi Xian to guard Formlessness while Xu Fayan digested his gains.
• Xu Xuan and Cangguang joined forces with Bimo's allies to invoke sky thunder and help her through the final stage of emergence.
• Xu Xuan completed his shock thunder fruit position with thunder marsh and sensed Bimo's transformation beginning, but Origin Vast and Heavenly Vessel attacked to interfere.
• Xu Xuan suppressed Heavenly Vessel as Origin Vast struck at sky thunder, but sky thunder and Bimo suddenly disappeared, leaving the assembled lords unable to sense them.
• Xu Xuan discovered that Jiang Li and other sky thunder cultivators had lost their powers, and Qinglin had become mortal with her former Dao fruit gone.
• Qinglin told Xu Xuan that her elder brother had used her as a distraction and that only Yinkang Ziye had been entrusted with the master's plans, which Xu Xuan could no longer stop.

Bimo resisted the founding patriarch’s inheritance and survived the collapse of sky thunder’s history, though she realized she had arrived too late to save its old form. In the Netherworld, Chi restored sky thunder to its primordial state through reincarnation, and the upheaval became visible to every living Golden Core.

• Bimo rejected the founding patriarch’s offer and resisted her father Yuanmiao’s attempts to make her accept it, even blinding, deafening, and silencing herself to escape their influence.
• A wolf’s howl helped Bimo hold on to her name, and she escaped the azure bird’s grasp despite Chi declaring her efforts futile.
• Bimo learned from the founding patriarch’s Dharma Form that Chi had already severed Heavenly Thunder’s old form, leaving no chance to preserve it.
• Sky thunder’s history was stripped away, and Bimo’s consciousness faded as she realized sky thunder had left Great Luo.
• In Fengdu, sky thunder’s golden nature emerged from reincarnation, and Chi invoked the old statutes while voluntarily dissolving sky thunder’s history and restoring it to its primordial state.
• The reincarnation radiance devoured sky thunder’s old forms as azure laws took root, and the spectacle became visible throughout the Netherworld to every living Golden Core.

A Lesser Yin Immortal Master annihilated the world’s powers while Emperor Nether struggled to establish reincarnation, and the surviving cultivators tried to resist. As the white horse carried the Immortal Master into darkness, a blood-red speck remained and laughter sounded from the twilight.

• Heavenly Thunder sacrificed his old form to create Emperor Nether and reopen reincarnation, while the Second Devil Ancestor emerged and was pinned in the Netherworld by a true-immortal sword.
• Emperor Nether swallowed the Netherworld’s divine statues and officials as the Lord of Turbid Exhalation abdicated and Boundless Palace suppressed the newborn Divine Being.
• The Lesser Yin Immortal Master rode a white horse through the twilight, declared that everyone could leave the world, and extinguished Torch Dragon’s manifestation when it challenged them.
• Frost suppressed Emperor Nether and reincarnation as the twilight annihilated the Netherworld and began erasing the world’s places and powers.
• Ying Qi charged the Lesser Yin Immortal Master with the Free and Easy Immortal Sword, but the twilight sealed the sword and suppressed him; a primordial pearl then crushed his attempt at severance.
• The white horse carried the Lesser Yin Immortal Master into darkness while the remaining radiances failed to challenge them, and laughter sounded as one speck of blood-red endured.

After Chi’s final dusk devastated Great Scarlet Heaven, Xu Xuan survived within his grotto-heaven and realized that Chi had not yet emerged from seclusion. Xu Xuan restored Great Scarlet Heaven and told Tiantuo to wait, saying he had seen the Dao of final dusk clearly.

• Xu Xuan watched Chi’s power extinguish yin-yang and destroy the world, while Tiantuo and the other Golden Core cultivators fell.
• Xu Xuan rejected the Dai Xi demonic image’s offer to take its ruling seat, but the image fused with him and became a demonic calamity.
• Xu Xuan cut seven wounds into himself, and Great Scarlet Heaven returned to its original state as Tiantuo revived.
• Xu Xuan realized the Lesser Yin Lord had not emerged from seclusion and suspected the figure outside was not Chi’s original body.
• Xu Xuan told Tiantuo to wait and said he had seen the Dao of final dusk clearly.

Yuan Sui guided Qingrang back to Primordial Heaven, where they discussed the completed Reincarnation and the Immortal Sovereign’s dream that had overlaid reality. Qingrang still hoped Fengxuan’s surviving Dao might offer a chance to change the crisis, but the Primordial Unity Pearl left him terrified.

• Yuan Sui emerged as a Primordial Heaven Divine Lord and used an incense offering to guide Qingrang back into the realm.
• Yuan Sui and Qingrang lamented their former family’s divisions and discussed how Lesser Yang’s fortunes had fallen.
• Yuan Sui explained that the Immortal Sovereign had used a dream of his future True Immortality to draw heaven, earth, and the Great Daos into a seemingly real vision.
• Qingrang condemned the new Reincarnation for continuing the Netherworld’s abuses, while Yuan Sui argued that those wrongs were insignificant beside the present calamity.
• Qingrang suggested that True Person Zhuang’s inheritance of Severance might preserve a chance to turn events around, but Yuan Sui rejected the hope.
• Qingrang recognized the Immortal Sovereign’s Primordial Unity Pearl and feared that the Sovereign could make his dream real.

Xu Xuan analyzed the upheaval and planned to use dai xi to pursue the Dao of altar thunder, while Divine Candle and Yuan Yan discussed the Immortal Sovereign, reincarnation, and their broken allegiances. The chapter ended with the Torch Dragon warning Divine Candle that cultivating Wonder and Constancy had made his path to transcendence harder.

• The dream ended, and the surviving Golden Cores awoke as the Netherworld's newly born Divine Being remained wounded and the Netherworld's Golden Core cultivator was confirmed dead.
• Xu Xuan realized dai xi was favoring him and planned to borrow the false to cultivate the real, using ji earth and void jie as vessels for his pursuit of altar thunder.
• Xu Xuan decided to seek the White Paper Blessed Land after Windflame was rebuilt and wondered whether the ultimate yin Dao knew Ying Qi.
• Yuan Yan visited Bitter Day in Dust-Candle Heaven and urged him to make arrangements as the Immortal Sovereign's might threatened the surviving Daos.
• Bitter Day refused to let Yuan Yan borrow reincarnation, and Yuan Yan accused him of abandoning the Thunder Palace before departing.
• The Torch Dragon warned Bitter Day to avoid the Lesser Yin Lord, but Bitter Day said he would honor their oath and decide how to act as events unfolded.

After Sky Thunder’s history was severed, Upper Firmament lost most of its power and faced the collapse of its Grotto-Heaven. Xu Xuan helped preserve the sect’s refuge, discovered that Bimo might be alive through Reincarnation, and learned secrets about Ancient Void that could help him reverse Three-in-One.

• Jade Bone and Ruan Yuan agreed that Upper Firmament would relinquish three commanderies and seek Mystic Unity’s help as its cultivation methods failed.
• Xu Xuan sent Shi Xian to guide Azure Cloud Heaven safely to the ground and examined Qingxiao’s Old Year Azure Origin Dharma Body for insight into Origin Wood.
• Xu Xuan found Bimo’s Cause and Effect in the Dharma Body and sensed that she was undergoing Reincarnation while Emperor Nether lay gravely injured.
• Qingrang arrived after attaining Primordial Heaven, and Xu Xuan returned the Evil-Severing Shaohua Banner to him.
• Qingrang revealed that Ancient Void had once cultivated Geng Metal and that the Immortal Sovereign’s rise drew on Ancient Void’s momentum.
• Xu Xuan connected Ancient Void’s Great Dao of Inversion to Three-in-One Reversal and concluded that Supreme Rites’ Mutual Fulfillment might restore Yin-Yang’s order.

Song Shiyi arrived at Great Flame’s imperial court, where the Emperor stripped him of his birth name and ordered him to serve at Si Xuan. After dismissing his ministers, the Emperor discussed diplomacy, a Northern Sea thunder lord tied to Chi, and the limits of resisting lesser yin.

• Song Shiyi entered the court and knelt before Great Flame’s Emperor as ministers debated how to deal with his ties to the former Li royal house.
• The Emperor punished Song Shiyi by ordering him to abandon his birth name, use only his Daoist name, establish no line of succession, and tend the fires at Si Xuan.
• Chancellor Wen asked whether Great Flame should send an envoy to Shu, and the Emperor agreed while saying he would reclaim the zhi tone through merit and Daoist arts.
• Chancellor Wen reported that Lord Liu Xuan’s arrangements had been uncovered and that the Northern Sea’s lord of shock thunder belonged to Chi’s inheritance.
• The Emperor said Great Flame should wait for Chi to act, then remarked that Emperor Fu alone could have overturned heaven and earth.

Xu Ming mastered his third Divine Ability and learned that Song Qing had emerged from seclusion, while Xu Xuan advised Liu Xiaowen about his uncertain Dao path. True Person Baoqiu then asked Xu Xuan to help stabilize the situation at Gathering Grotto Continent and offered insight into northern dynasties and the support Many Treasures might provide.

• Xu Ming mastered [Evil Severance Descent] and hurried to the Virtue-Heavy Secret Realm after sensing Song Qing's emergence from seclusion.
• Xu Xuan discussed Liu Xiaowen's Divine Ability choices and proposed that he consider pursuing the Divine Dao through a Divine Core.
• True Person Baoqiu arrived to ask Xu Xuan to help Many Treasures control the situation at Gathering Grotto Continent, and Xu Xuan agreed to go when summoned.
• Xu Xuan asked Baoqiu about the northern dynasties, and Baoqiu explained the Windflame Imperial Clan's ties to Emperor Fu and why the Bing Fire and Wu Earth dynasties would not fight a war of annihilation.
• Baoqiu offered Many Treasures' support to Xu Ming and asked Xu Xuan to leave his name among the Jiang if he attained the Altar Fruit Position; afterward, Xu Xuan suggested Liu Xiaowen might seek help from Many Treasures for his Divine Dao plans.

Liu Shu Han received Shi Xian’s order to recruit talented cultivators in the north as Windflame’s growing fortune transformed the region. Xu Xuan then went to the Pudu Holy Land to ask the Primordial Mother about Perilous Excellence, explaining that he wished to cultivate the true through the false.

• Liu Shu Han told Shi Xian that Mystic Unity’s Immortal Sect had fewer than a hundred members and few promising disciples.
• Shi Xian gave Liu Shu Han his command token and sent her north to recruit talented people amid Windflame’s rise.
• Shi Xian reported the northern situation to Xu Xuan, who instructed him to handle the coming visit from Many Treasures and said their lineage should respond to events as they unfolded.
• Xu Xuan traveled to the Pudu Holy Land with Thunder Marsh and asked the Primordial Mother about Perilous Excellence.
• The Primordial Mother asked whether the one in heaven had driven Xu Xuan to undertake the Fourth Demon’s work, and Xu Xuan said he wished to cultivate the true through the false.

Xu Xuan learned the origins of the Desire Fruit and received the Grinding Stone Throne from the Primordial Mother, while discussing the risks and precedents of emptiness attestation. Back in Great Scarlet Heaven, he arranged new contacts with the northern and southern kingdoms and decided to bring Li Huanyou into his Dao to pursue the Netherworld’s plans for Feng Li.

• The Primordial Mother explained that Desire Tide had fashioned the jade head and Desire Fruit through Buddhist karma, and Xu Xuan took the fruit as a demonic cause to use in Ji Earth’s history and void zheng’s extrapolations.
• The Primordial Mother gave Xu Xuan the Grinding Stone Throne and warned him that the one above now controlled the yin aspect, then described the dangers and past failures of emptiness attestation.
• Xu Xuan asked about immortality and the great Dao of harmonious union, and the Primordial Mother explained the Primordial Spirit, Dao fruit, and ancient ties among the contemplative paths.
• Xu Xuan returned to Great Scarlet Heaven, assessed the northern developments around Liu Shu Han and the Windflame prince, and told Shi Xian to contact Du Chang and test the An Kingdom’s attitude toward shock thunder.
• Shi Xian reported that the Netherworld was in chaos and that Li Huanyou might be involved in its plans for Feng Li, so Xu Xuan ordered Li Huanyou’s True Spirit brought to him and resolved to make him part of his Dao.

Li Huanyou completed his second divine ability and persuaded King Ce Zhan to let him enter the human world as a Yin Spirit. After Li Huanyou departed, Ce Zhan and a duplicate revealed their plans to escape the Netherworld by seizing the Immortal Corpse.

• Li Huanyou completed Wu Earth's Invasion-Proof, Leakless divine ability and burned Wu Nu when she tried to stop him leaving seclusion.
• Li Huanyou entered the Provisional King's Palace and asked Ce Zhan for permission to travel the human world and reclaim Feng Li's fortune.
• Ce Zhan granted Li Huanyou permission to collect a writ from Judge Chen and walk the world in the body of a Yin Spirit.
• After Li Huanyou left, the Prefect Lord summoned a duplicate of him, who revealed that Li Huanyou had been formed from Golden Nature and was no longer needed as a model.
• Ce Zhan and the duplicate discussed the divine beings in the Netherworld and planned to revive the Immortal Corpse with Immortal Plum Heaven's incense offerings so they could escape.

Shi Xian rescued Li Huanyou from a possession scheme and learned that the Subduing Earth Immortal Corpse had been corrupted by the Devil Ancestor. Xu Xuan saw an opportunity to enlist Houtu and began plotting against the surviving True Lord No Awareness.

• Li Huanyou crossed into the mortal world, but Shi Xian summoned him to Mysterious Heaven and bound his life to its authority.
• Shi Xian revealed that True Lord No Awareness intended to possess Li Huanyou, and Li Huanyou agreed to submit to Mysterious Heaven for protection.
• Li Huanyou explained that the Subduing Earth Immortal Corpse, also called Yin Celestial and Lord You, had been dug up and used by Taojue, leaving the subduing earth fruit position unattained.
• Li Huanyou collapsed after recounting the history, and Shi Xian suspected the corpse's unrest had influenced Mount Tai's decision to surrender Righteous Order's golden nature.
• Xu Xuan asked Thunder Marsh about Houtu, learned that the Earth Sovereign loved living beings, and decided Houtu might become an ally in his plans.
• Xu Xuan looked at the unconscious Li Huanyou and hinted that he would turn No Awareness's attempt to possess him against No Awareness.

Si Wenchuan completed another Divine Ability and agreed to enter the descending Grotto-Heaven in exchange for [Autumn Origin of Rongping], while fearing the fate that befell Li Shangmi. In the Heavenly Ginseng Yi, Panmi claimed the meritorious titles and Dao arts of Long Abode and Tai Can, then departed for White Paper Blessed Land as Mystic Secrets prepared its next moves.

• Si Wenchuan completed [Blossoms Bow with Fruit] and agreed to True Person Han Jue’s request to enter the Grotto-Heaven for [Autumn Origin of Rongping].
• Si Wenchuan visited the empty site of Yuyang Continent, mourned Li Shangmi, and crushed the spiritual light containing Liu Tangjing after Liu Tangjing condemned his plan to abandon the abbey.
• Panmi emerged from Tai Can’s image, claiming the meritorious titles and Dao arts of both Long Abode and Tai Can.
• Panmi ordered Zhang Yeqing to prepare the seeds—Si Wenchuan and Ye Yanzhen—before leaving for White Paper Blessed Land.
• Zhang Yeqing considered the difficulty of Yi Wood leaving its Golden Rank and saw a Relic, Dragon Scale, Crow Feather, and a blood-lit Bronze Wine Goblet at the temple altar.